Insights

A multi-decade high inflation, aggressive monetary policy tightening by the central banks, and the effects of the Russia/Ukraine war, have led to a highly volatile first three quarters of 2022, and infrastructure, though more resilient, wasn’t completely immune to all these effects. The infra300® index, which tracks a representative global sample of unlisted infrastructure equity investments worth more than USD

The cut in gas flows from Russia to Europe has had a significant impact on the electricity market in Europe, but not for reasons that you might expect. In response to the cut in flows, the European Commission mandated all countries to increase their gas storage. As a result, there has been significant activity since March to fill all gas

In July the FT reported ($) that Calpers suffered losses on both its fixed income and public equity portfolios of almost 15% for the year ending June. Meanwhile, its private asset portfolio provided returns of 20%. Now, as the FT noted, these returns are to May, not June. But there does appear to be a disconnect between the private and public

Dear Sir/Madam, Following your announcement on September 19, 2022, that you were taking legal action against the European executive to prevent fossil gas from featuring in the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, we wanted to assure you of our wholehearted support for your initiative. In effect, we published a study in February this year entitled “The Cost of Capital of

Private markets function on data – but the data to accurately price climate risks in investment decisions is sorely lacking. We must urgently fill this information void or private finance will fail to contribute to climate action. Since COP26 and the commitment by members of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) to accelerate the decarbonization of the economy,

On September 14, Atlas Arteria announced it acquired a 67% majority stake in the Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge for US$2 billion. This was in sharp opposition to the views of IFM, one of its shareholders, which claimed it was “value destructive”. Yesterday IFM got specific, accusing Atlas Alteria of destroying AUD$1 billion of value through the acquisition. The Skyway deal